Chapter 355: 　Reconnaissance (Part 2)

The small town of Tours is small, there are only dozens of families in the town, and there are about 500 people in the town. Most people in the town make a living from hunting, and most of them are hunters. The town belongs to Baron Maud, and the baron’s taxes are just on the people’s food and clothing line. After paying the tax, there is still a certain surplus. It's not about being rich, but it's also considered worry-free. The Baron also ignored this border town in his territory. Except for the father of the tax officer who will appear in the town every spring, it is difficult to see the adults in Storm City at other times.
But this year seems to be an exception.
Not long ago, a group of soldiers entered the town and brought the baron's draft order. All healthy men above 15 and below 50 in the town must join the army unconditionally. People were a little panicked when they heard the news. Storm City has conscripts all year round, but most of them are voluntary. This kind of forced conscription is still the first case. With the mobilization of the mayor, dozens of people in the town have been forced into the army.
Every day he trains in a clearing outside the town, and is not allowed to return home until sunset. And next month, they must follow the army to Storm City. At that time, they were already real soldiers.
People began to inquire about the reason for the sudden conscription of Storm City, and soon they learned that the mandatory conscription was not only in the town of Tours. The same situation occurred in several other towns under the jurisdiction of Storm City. Men were recruited, sent weapons and trained. Some people even say that they will have to go to the battlefield soon.
war!
In the past ten years, Storm City has hardly heard similar words, which is located on the border of the empire. Even though Storm City is already in the upper middle among the few jazz collars around here, it is still a barren land for the empire's numerous nobles. No great aristocracy is interested in bringing troops to the border, let alone war.
As for the city of Suer not far away, or another jazz leader in the Blood Rock Wasteland, neither of them has enough strength to compete with Storm City. Over the years, it has been under the pressure of Storm City, making the people on the territory a little proud.
But now that the war has come to this land, there is no more terrible news.
In the evening, many women gathered outside the mayor's house. The elderly mayor sighed and opened the door to let them in. After the women came to the house, they asked the mayor to intercede with the adults in Storm City and asked the army to at least let their son come back. The reason is very simple. The middle-aged males in the family are forced to conscript for the army, and their families are almost unable to survive.
Men are the most important labor of a family. There are no men in the family, no one to cultivate the land, and no one to hunt in the mountains. Sir Maud did not pay any allowance for this, which made it difficult for every family to make ends meet.
In the face of the angry women, the mayor can only promise to go to Storm City to see the situation these days, and wait until he comes back. The women let go of the poor old mayor, and the mayor sighed heavily as they watched each of them go back. How could he be willing to do so, his favorite grandson is now also being trained outside the town. The mayor was heartbroken at the thought of this.
The training outside the town had just ended. After a hard day of training, the mental and physical strength of the recruits were almost squeezed out. This made their instructors very satisfied. The men in Tours Town had good physical fitness. As long as they were trained and learned the necessary knowledge, they could barely get on the battlefield. It's just that the officer's face doesn't look good when he thinks of the army returning from Suhl.
He had never thought that the two main forces of Storm City, Fury Thunder and Gale, would be defeated, and even Captain Mogu would be captured.
This is definitely a shame!
No soldier wants to see his army defeated, so this officer was assigned to Tours to train new recruits. He did his part, hoping that these soldiers who went out from his own hands could shine on the battlefield. . He is very strict, even harsh. Once a recruit does not do well, it will not only be punished, but also a severe beating.
Officers believe that only in this way can they remember the mistakes they made and stop making them again.
Before disbanding, he counted the number and suddenly found that one of the recruits was missing. Wook, the 16-year-old grandson of the old mayor. That slippery kid always failed to complete the amount of training he assigned. The officer was very impressed with the kid, so when he counted the number, he suddenly found that the boy was not in the crowd.
"Who saw Wu Ke?" He said sternly, and fixed his gaze on a few half-and-a-half children who always confuse Wu Ke.
The eyes of several boys flickered, and the officer pointed out: "Each of you hit five lashes. This is a punishment for you if you don't know it. If you don't say anything, you will beat me to death. My subordinates will never allow deserters. "
The wolf-like soldiers rushed into the crowd and dragged the boys out. He couldn't help but beat his whip. Several men in the crowd who were their fathers rushed out angrily. The soldiers were also uniformed and given a few whips. Before the five whips were finished, one of the youngest boys already cried out: "I said, I said. Wook ran away, and he said he could not stand this kind of training.
"Damn it!" the officer roared, "Find him and bring him back. If he refuses, he will do the Fa right there!"
After a while, several soldiers left the camp with a vicious dog with fangs turned down. Dogs barked in the forest, and it didn't take long for the soldiers to find Wook in a group of bushes. The innocent boy also hoped that he could escape by hiding in the mountains, but unfortunately he was able to find the dog's sensitive nose.
"Follow us back!" The soldier pointed a gun at him and said blankly.
Wook yelled: "No, you will torture me to death. Even if I can't die, then I will go to the battlefield again, no, I don't want to go to the battlefield. I don't want to die."
"The sir said, if you don't go back, you will be executed now."
"Really? In that case, it would be better for you to die!" Wook pulled out a dagger and rushed up frantically. Looking at him, a look of regret flashed in the eyes of a soldier, and he let go of the rope holding the dog. The vicious dog immediately rushed to fight with Wu Ke, and another soldier next to him raised his rifle in a hurry, and shot Wu Ke on his back when he turned over.
The gunfire rang three times in a row.
Wook fell to the ground, his neck bitten by the dog. He just felt that his body was getting cold, how much the boy missed the days before. Unfortunately, everything can't go back. When the soldier pulled his leg indifferently and dragged it down the mountain, Wu Ke suddenly saw a young man who believed his age appeared among the trees ahead. The silver hair of the young man was faintly shiny under the moonlight passing through the gaps in the leaves.
Behind him, a giant snake appeared from the shadows, stopped behind the boy and watched all this quietly.
Then, darkness struck again.
After Wook and the soldiers disappeared, Allen patted his head and said, "Let's go, let's go to another town."
Bai lowered his head, let Allen sit up, and then used gentle movements to swim among the undulating ground of the mountains. In Allen's hand, a sketch map of the topography, which marked the town of Tours and key information such as population and garrison. This night, Bai advanced sixty to seventy kilometers in Maude's territory and passed three small towns. The information of these towns is recorded on Allen's sketches.
Another day passed.
When night fell, Allen opened his eyes and got out of a tree hole. Since the afternoon, Allen has been training on the source of power. Continue to divide a part of the generated source power and provide it to the heart to strengthen this important organ, hoping to have more chances of winning when the awakened is promoted. So after the long training of source strength, the growth of source strength is very limited.
However, in this process, Allen's source power has become more solemn.
He called Bai, and Wang She led him on the road. And after more than an hour, Allen saw the lights of Storm City.
Storm City is located at the foot of a continuous mountain range. The rock material of this mountain range contains very peculiar minerals, which will reflect the moonlight at night and show faint blue fluorescence. Therefore, this mountain range is called the Deep Blue Mountain collar, and the other side of the Deep Blue Mountain collar is adjacent to the coast. Therefore, the people blowing in the city, the wind keeps blowing all year round.
This is also the origin of the name of Storm City.
From a distance, Storm City is about twice the size of Sur City. The back of the city relies on the deep blue mountains, and on the other side a towering guard wall is built to protect the entire city. There was an arrow tower with a spire on the guard wall, and the two black turrets attracted Allen's eyes.
High walls, heavy artillery, plus a certain army. To lay down such a defensive city from the front, the price must be high. Allen silently recorded all this, and said: "It's a pity that you can't enter the city, otherwise you will have a chance to figure out their troop arrangement and the number of troops."
He does not mean that. Bai opened his eyes, with his big head leaning on the side, raised his head and arched Allen. Allen looked at it in surprise: "Do you have a way?"
Bai tilted his head and rolled his eyes upward~EbookFREE.me~ seems to blame Alan for not underestimating it.
Allen was angry and funny, patted its head and said, "Then leave it to you."
White nodded, the snake turned around and swam into the forest.
At this moment, in the city lord's mansion of Storm City, Mo Gu walked back and forth in his office with his hands, looking very annoyed. There was a knock on the door, and when he finally agreed, his son Joey stepped forward. He said solemnly: "Father, there is news from Mr. Roger."
"How about it, has Roger's slavery group set off?" Roger asked at the start.
Qiao Yi sighed and said: "Mr. Roger's reply is that we are a step slower. Before receiving the news, his slave-catching corps had already set off, so it was unable to support us."
"What?" Maude hit the table with a punch.
Joey tentatively asked: "Or, shall we transfer Dick?"
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